Smoking pipe cleaner



April 22, 1952 A, PASCQQ SMOKING PIPE'CLEANER Filed Aug. 15, 1946 INVENTOR 456x Jpn/$00.

Patented Apr. 22, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention is an improvement in pipe cleaners, and especially cleaners for the pipes of tobacco smokers.

An important object of the invention is to provide a cleaner which is adapted to scrape and clean out the bowl of a tobacco pipe and which is inexpensive to produce, simple in construction, and designed to be quickly and easily adjusted and operated to give the desired result in action.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the pipe cleaner seen from one side.

Figure 2 is a similar view seen from the opposite side.

Figure 3 shows a cross section of a pipe bowl with the cleaner therein; and

Figure 4 is Va section on line 4-4 of Figure 3.

The device comprises a pair of scraper members each of which is generally L-shaped and consists of arms I and 2 that are disposed substantially at right angles. The shorter arms I are united near their centers by a headed rivet 3, and have pivotal movement about the axis thereof. The free ends of the arms I are curled over as at 4 Aso that they can be grasped by the users ngers and manipulated as desired.

'I'he longer arms 2 are tapered from the junction thereof with the arms I and are bent each along the outer edge to present a longitudinal rib 5 that is disposed at a slight incline to the outer face of the arm 2, that is, presented away from the rivets 3 and 6. These ribs 5 are preferably along the opposite edges of the arms 2. At their curved-out extremities 9 the arms 2 are connected by a rivet 6 with its axis in line with the axis of the rivet 3, this rivet 6 permitting movement.

The cleaner is inserted into the bowl 'l of the pipe and held rmly by the curled knobs 4. Pressure on the knobs separates the arms 2 and ribs 8 or projections, and the rolls 4 are at the ends of said projections.

The cleaner is thus well calculated to ser-ve its intended purpose and is made up of only a few plain and easily assembled parts. The embodiment shown is the best now known to me, but in practice I may of course resort to changes in details without deviating from the essential construction in which the invention resides.

Having described my invention, what I believe to be new is:

A cleaner for the bowl of a smokers pipe comprising two substantially L-shaped members each having a long arm and a short arm at adjacent ends of the long arms, the short arms being disposed at right angles to said long arms, the short arm of one member overlapping the short arm of the other, said short arms being pivotally attached to one another near the outer ends thereof, said short arms having lateral projections extending therefrom, said projections diverging from one another, the outer ends of said projections being rolled over, said long arms having their opposite ends bent in the same direction as said short arms, said opposite ends being pivotally connected together, said members being adapted for insertion into the bowl, said members being bent along their opposite longitudinal edges in the opposite direction with reference to said short arms to present scraping edges.

ALEX PASCOO.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATEb PATENTS ANumber Name Date 1,560,441 Trosper Nov. 3, 1925 1,704,631 Shaak Mar, 5, 1929 2,226,114 Coelho Dec. 24, 1940 2,227,188 Hugh Dec. 31, 1940 2,360,441 Nelson Oct. 17, 1944 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 134,408 Great Britain Nov. 6, 1919 

